BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE (2016). all quotes have been taken from zack snyder's batman v superman: dawn of justice (2016) both the threatrical and ultimate cuts. change pronouns and names as you see fit.
We're criminals, Alfred. We've always been criminals. Nothing's changed.
Everything's changed. Men fall from the sky, the gods hurl thunderbolts, innocents die.
That's how it starts, sir. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel.
I bet your parents taught you that you mean something, that you're here for a reason.
My parents taught me a different lesson, dying in the gutter for no reason at all... They taught me the world only makes sense if you force it to.
Civil liberties are being trampled on in your city; good people living in fear.
Don't believe everything you hear, son.
I've seen it, Mr. Wayne. He thinks he's above the law.
Most of the world doesn't share your opinion, Mr. Wayne.
Maybe it's that Gotham City and me... we just have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns.
An alien who, if he wanted to, could burn the whole place down. There wouldn't be a damn thing we can do to stop it.
Devils don't come from hell beneath us. No, they come from the sky.
Still working? You're getting slow in your old age, Alfred.
It comes to us all, Master Wayne. Even you've got too old to die young, though not for lack of trying.
Twenty years in Gotham, Alfred; we've seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?
The world has been so caught up with what Superman can do that no one has asked what he should do.
You're not brave... men are brave. You say that you want to help people, but you can't feel their pain... their mortality... It's time you learn what it means to be a man.
Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me.
You don't know me, but I've known a few women like you.
Stay down! If I wanted it, you'd be dead already!
Next time they shine your light in the sky, don't go to it. The Bat is dead. Bury it. Consider this mercy.
In the dream, it took me to the light. A beautiful lie.
Be their hero, Clark. Be their angel, be their monument, be anything they need you to be... or be none of it. You don't owe this world a thing. You never did.
I'm older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters.
Twenty years of fighting criminals amounts to nothing?
Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?
A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind, from a century of horrors. Man made a world where standing together is impossible.
Men are still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.
This bat vigilante has been consistently targeting the port and the adjacent projects and tenements.
Do you know the oldest lie in America, Senator? It's that power can be innocent.
It did on my world. My world doesn't exist anymore.
God versus man; day versus night; Son of Krypton versus Bat of Gotham!
You flew too close to the sun. Now look at you.
Wow. Pretty girl, bad habit. Don't quote me, alright?
You don't need to use a silver bullet. But if you forge one, you don't need to depend on the kindness of monsters.
I hope the next generation of Waynes won't inherit an empty wine cellar.
Go upstairs and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you honest.
I've killed things from other worlds before.
This thing is from another world. My world.
You were never a god. You were never even a man.
No one stays good in this world.
I'll take you in without breaking you, which is more than you deserve.
Thermal imaging is showing me two dozen hostiles on the third floor. Why don't I drop you off on the second?
've arranged for you to get a transfer to Arkham Asylum in Gotham. I still have some friends there. They're expecting you.
Ignorance is not the same as innocence.
I don't hate the sinner. I hate the sin. And yours, my friend, is existing.
Men with power obey neither policy nor principle, Miss Lane. No one is different; no one is neutral.
You must be new to "Let Them Eat Cake" beat. That is Bruce Wayne.